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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13
old DOMINION STEAM .>sTFA
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FOX NEW loKh.
stosmsrs leave Richmond EVERY TUESDAY
and FRIDAY al Z. NJ, aud SLNuAi 81 high
stosmers leave New York far Richmond via
Norfolk EVERY I ESDAi, TIT R>DAY, AMI
SATURDAY i3P. n.
passenger accommodations unsurpassed.
Cabin fare o New YORK va James-ryer
route tacludiug msals and BERTH ......i ~
aound-trp tickets limited - Unity days ~.
after date q Issue. .--.... - ~
Storage, with stence.............'. 81
Steeraco, without Subsistence. ......-'... "
Cabin lars via Chesapeake and Ohis rail-
road. .-.-.... $3.50. AZ "
Catir fare via Richmond aud PeSoTsolfs =,
railroad. ...........s........s". q" D.
TicseI. can DO obtained :. A. ". Carriers.
1909 Main street; Chesapeake ana ONO dnd
Richmond and Petersburg deiots, ana Al com.
p,ny's onices, 100, MAJ street, aao raATi'
ROckettA "
issued for points bevoni New York.
Freight received ialIy untll T. VI.
N.ultest closed W sailing days one hour be
fore departure. A.. - o,.,.
and SatuYdsy st8P. NJ. 10y the Newport News
stesmet ard arrive al Richmond by the Chesa-
pesae and Ohis train the next day AZ o;l3 L. N.
Passengers ieaying kiehmond on MONDAYS,
Tuesdays, WEDNESDAYS, THURSDAYS,
and SATURDAYS by the Chesapeake shd Ohic
railway (gic Newport News al =. NJ, and
by Richmond and Petersburg railroad same
1sys) ii 1919 A. W.. will make connection ~
SfRF0LE with steamer leaving those dEyA
SAILINGS THIS WEEK.
WYANOkE, Captain huLPhEks FRIDAY
Jdy 18th. at 3 O'Clock y. NJ
4 ROANOKE, Captain CoCCH, SUNDAY,
July 18th, at O'Clock 4. VI.
OLD DOMINION, Captain SMITH, TUES
DAY, July 10Th. at O'Clock p. VI.
aEOkGE w. ALLEN & CO., Agents,
No. 1901 Main street, and
Comuany's wharf. ROcketA,
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13

Count ii Marifori, son OF King Vic
tor Emmanuel, is one Of the greatest
vine-makeis of Italy. His vineyards
of Incca coycr nearlY 1000 acres.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13

By James ,,acd0usall.

C,TOCK OFGROCERlES, WAGoNS,
- roUSFuoLD FUKNIGuRE, &C., Al
AUCTlON.-cn
WEDNESDAY, July l9TH. ,...,
q, ,ot< O'Clock, viii cell n; No SO, west pi ,,
erect. tho balance Of STOCK OF "r'oC Iii
CHoCKFgY. SHOES; Excellent large ~. Id
or HEFR EKFRIGfRATOh; sHOW-CAsbo,
COUNTERS, COFFEE-MlLL, &c so'i
SPRING WAGONS, with top; o,..
. sets nearly new HARNESS, SADDLE eT it n
Also, very genteel assortment OF Nv. Word
FURNITURE, embracing, Bedsteaas W." ~,
robes. Washsianda. Mattresses, Marp5e-top
sideboard, BOOK Case. Tables Carpets I ENCE.
ient COOKING RANGE, complete; ChoCh-
FKY. GLASSWARE, &C., &c. sale Po.inye'
h"i' JANIS MACDOUGALL,
80. salesman.
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PHILADELPHIA, RICH zfNb
MoND AND NORFOLK
gTEAMsHIP COMPANY.

Appointed sailing days: Every TUESDAY
and FRIDAY Of is NJ, aud every SUNDAY a.
5A. NJ.
Freight for Tuesdays and Fridays steamers
received I'M 1850 A. NJ. for sundays steamer
un5P. N. Saturday. Freight received daily
III 6P NJ.
Fare, 81
Yor further information Apply 70
j, w. MCCARkiCx,
General Southern Agent Once RocssttA
w. p. CLYDE = CO,
MI Oeusral Agents, PhiiaAelphia
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13
~ George :. Nashou e. ~oa,
Real Estate Aucuope"r.

DRTCE STORE, WITH DWELL
ID ING or FIVE ROOMS ABOVE AND nE-
1hCEtD KITCHEN ~ Ai;p-Lpr yN4l
FEET-EJ. 40 Nchih Sf,OND ~lK.II -
Hy rcqucst ~ thco.uot Tr vll -o.l 81 e. l- ..icn.
on the Ir, niscs ON
THURSDAY. july -. lss-.
at Gi5 O'Clock b. NJ. tno PROPERTY above BE-
SERTED.
This sale cGcrs iacu emcuis to iho want
iug store property tor ..e az Investment
TERMS: L.-y.
e.. s. NASdON D. sos.
yg auction. ..L
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AUCTION SALES.--FUTURE DAYS
by Quarlcs q McCur1y,
Real Estate Brokers.

COMMISSIONERS SALE or \
" LOT tfONTING SIXTY FKET on ASH
LAND STREET, Ar TIE SOUTHEAST coz
MIR or CARTER STREET. IMMEDIATELY
ON TIE LINE or 1HE NEW ELECTRIC
RAILWAY.
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WANTED, A YOUNG MAN WITH
w some experience In the Stationery and
Paper trade. Address srATIOSRR.
~ Seod3t care Dispateh Office.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13

SAUNDERS & SON, &C.. PLAINTIFF. ADJUST IT,
WEIR a. sON ASp Ala, bEfENptNft-.% 1it
CnANCgKy COURT or THE tir1 0f krH"1N.
/. Benjamin II. Berry, clerk OF -1ll r0Irr
certify iha. The bond required ci Che 7pr 'i4l
commissioners ty the decr.o in s..l cGIse -
June II. ~. hBs been duly given
Given under my hand this SIN day " Juiy.
49,.
fya BENJAMIN -. BERRY.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-13

EOR RENT, STORE ANDGA
l. DWELLING Nc. Market street, be- L@a
tween Main and Franklin streets.
Also. STOKE AND CELLAR No. 1903 east
Franklin street. Just above the Old Market.
II. SELDOM TAYLOR,
Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer.
ty lO13&l5
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
BETTER THAN COTTON.

Some points in regard to the profits
Of truck-gardening in North Carolina
came under my observation not long
since and are worthy Of record.
A gentleman who lives on the line
Of the Wilmington & Weldon Rail
road, between Goldsboro & Whining
ton, states that he experimental with
one acre of his best land last year,
planted in snap-beans. He used
the early variety known as the Golden
Wax Beans, and planted with, the idea
OF getting them to market as early as
possible. They were shipped to New
York in t~hree-peck crates, on the fast
freight, and realized an average of So
per crate. The first shipments sold at
$3.50, dropping afterwards to So and
then to $1.5O per crate. The crates
he nailed together himself, with the
Stats and end pieces, which come ready
cut to size from the saw-mills, and cost
him II IL cents each. The freight
is about as fast as express and costs 25
cents per crate.
After deducting the expenses of the
crates, commission and freight charges.
he found that he had realized about
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05

safe in saying that many farmers raise
and feed stock that, leaving out the
expense of feeding and care, does not
pay the farmers a profit. In fact, he
does not receive a fair price for what
he had fed out. With ordinary care
the manur should be worth the trou-
BILE of feeding and caring for the AMI,
mails. But too often the man who Will
insist upon keeping the scrub stock,
will also fail to take the proper means
to make, save and apply all the manure
possible, so that to many the failures to
keep good stock really implies two
losses-a failure to secure the largest
gain from the feed, and also the value
of the manure.
To this may further be added the
care. The man who will fail in the
other two respects will nearly always
fail to give such care and attention in
feeding and sheltering that is neces-
sary to secure the best results. The
man who keeps good stock realizes
the fact that the greatest. gain can
only be secured by good feed and good
care. Thus the keeping of the one
implies the other.
When the profits at best are small,
it of course requires but a small
amount of neglect to take off all the
profits. We are feeding the grain and
hay and running the risk with no>pro-
fit. One may be surer Of profit with
good stock and good care, and not
only profit, but an increased one, than
where only scrubs are kept.-N. j. s.
IN Farm, Field and Stocknaan.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
STRAWBERRY PLANT PROPA.
CATION.

Mr.. G.. G.. Miller, of Tuscrawas
county, Ohio, an extensive fruit grower
for market, adopts the following
method for rapidly increasing his stock
of plants of the new and high priced
varieties: Beginning early in July,
as soon as the unners get ready
to root for young plants, the help
pass along the ows and cut off
all the young tips, and drop them as
fast as cut into a pail of water. The
cuttings are then carried to the field,
where they are planted out in rows
3 IL feet by Is inches, watered and
shaded for a day or two, when they
grow more readily than young plants
with tender milky roots. Half an
acre planted in this way the first week
in August Of last year was in fruiting
this year the best of any out of four
acres planted last year. Mr.. Miller
also recommends this method in prop.
agating plants for sale: Place the
plants close together in a cold frame
where they can be shaded and watered
a few days, when they will at once
make roots and become extra strong
plants for summer planting. New
tips will be rapidly thrown out from
the parent plant, which in the same
way a be cut into water and bedded
out from time to time, and a wonder
full increase made in one season, from
1900 to 1900 plants being propagated
from n stock plant in a single season.
This same method is also being tested
in the propagation of blackcap and
other raspberries that root from the
tip, and gives great promise of sue
cess, inasmuch as the plants are at all
times under the control of the propa-
gator, while in the field many are lost
from drouth Or by being blown about
by the winds. In propagating the
blackcaps, the tips should not be cut
while in a green and rapid growing
condition, but when they begin to
ripen up a little by turning a reddish
brown at the ends. After these are
cut off the plants will often times throw
out lateral tips which may be used for
field propagation later in the season.
j: H. Hale, in Farm and Home.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05

$500 from the one acre. This is eousl
to nearly six bales of cotton. and
since the crop is a very early one and
quickly disposed of, there is still time
enough to plant and manure a cron Of
something else on the same ground.
There are probably many places in
eastern North Carolina where as favor.
able conditions as to soil, climate and
transportation may be found and a
profitable business be done in that line
Although they cannot compete with
Florida, they can still get their earIv
vegetables IN the Northern market in
time to realize a handsome profit. We
know of parties in the vicinity of
Ridgeway who propose to operate in
that line this year.-T. c. Harris. IN
NeWs and Observer.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
SOUTHERN SILOS.

Silos may be built wholly under
ground, or partly below and partly
above; when built below, the temper.
allure is more uniform, and that tends
to the preservation of the ensilage:
but, on the contrary, there is some
risk Of the seeping in Of water, and
this necessitates the having of drain
pipes at bottom. A two or three-inch
iron or sewer pipe, with a trap to pre-
vent air from entering the silo, is call
ed for. In our climate, where there
is little danger Of ensilage freezing in
winter, we rather incline to think that
cheap plank silos, built mainly above
ground answer we'll enough-say four
feet under ground and six or eight
above. Set six or eight-inch posts
four feet apart, putting them at least
three feet in the ground; plank up
closely both inside and outside, and
fill up space between with dirt we'll
rammed in. The dimension of a silo
is quite an important matter; it should
be deep and narrow-length unimpor-
tant-but it should be divided length
wise into compartments eight to ten
feet long, SO that the ensilage may be
taken out of one compartment without
disturbing or exposing that in another.
AS ensilage is injured by long expos
ure, it is to be avoided. Begin at the
top of a compartment and take off
layer after layer downward. This is
the easiest method to get it out and
involves least exposure.-Dr. W. L,
Jones an Southern C~ultavator for May.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
GOOD STOCK PAYS GOOD
PROFITS.

For some time past there has been
a general complaint that times are
hard, money scarce, and, in conse-
quence, farmers profits small. To a
certain extent there is hardly any doubt
but this is SO. Some of the causes
r beyond our reach, we are not able
to control them; but others we are, if
we are willing to put forth the proper
effort.
Where mixed farming is followed,
and the greater portion of what is
raised upon the farm is fed out to
stock, SO that all the manure possible
a be made, saved and applied, in
order to realize the largest amount of
profits possible, it is necessary to secure
the largest gain at the smallest ex-
pense. One of the first essentials
necessary to secure this is to have good
stock. The farmer who is obliged to
work and manage so as to secure the
largest possible profits, cannot afford
to feed what he raises upon the farm
to anything else but good stock, be-
cause it is only with good stock that
he can secure the largest gain.
1t is true good stock costs a little
more than scrubs, but they make us
more money, and you can make more
money with a less number, and less
feed will be required. I think I am
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
~ -

Educate the people" was the first
admonition addressed by William
Penn to the colony which he founded
Educate the people was the legacy
of George Washington to the nation
which he had saved. educate the
people, was the ~unceasing exhortatlon
of Thomas Jefferson; and l quote
Jefferson with peculiar pleasure be-
cause, of all the eminent men that ever
lived, Adam Smith himself not except
ed, Jefferson was the one, who most
abhorred everything like meddling on
the part of governments. Yet the
chief business of his later years was
to establish a good system of state ed
ucation in V~irginia.-Macaulay.
Fifteen years ago David Hostetter
was a pedler. Today he is worth Slo'-
900, 900.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
THE CROP.

[ think that our lands are worn
down with careless cultivation, and
sickened with indiscriminate use of
poor guanos. The thing for our farm
ers to do is to bring their lands back
to their normal state. To do this, [
would say, for tobacco, take up only
so much land, say one, two, three or
four acres, as you can do full justice
to, with a good, strong subsoil, and
which was originally good, make it
rich with farm-pen manure, and some
good bone phosphate, or bone dust
would help it. Put on just enough f
some good guano to give the planes
an early start. Prepare the land well,
plant in time to get a good stand by
the 10th Of June, let it never suffer
for want of proper working, and es-
pecially keep it clear of suckers and
worms. Let it get ripe enough to
have a good silky gloss. When cured,
cure it in the old-fashioned way, by
scaffolding, Or hanging in the barn
several days, then put your fires under
it. When the leaf is cured and stem
green, put out the fires and let it come
and go in order till the sap has run
into the leaf. This will give it a uni
form dark color. Then put the fires
under again and cure up thoroughly.
With this process properly worked
out, our planters will not have so much
cause to complain of low prices. To
keep your lands up to the standard to
produce this fine tobacco, as soon as
your tobacco is cut in the fall, seed it
n wheat and grass Glover and timothy
mixed is the best). Get a good stand
OF grass as early as possible. When
the crop Of wheat is taken off, let the
land stand in grass at least two years.
This grass may be cut once a year, if
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05
SUNFLOWERS AS DISINFECT-
ANTS.

Plant sunfowers about your house,
not only for the royal beauty of their
golden blossoms, but because of their
healthful influences. Experiments in
France and Holland, says a good au-
thority, have shown that %sunfowers,
when planted on an extensive scale,
will neutralize the pernicious exhala-
tons from marshes. This plan has
been tried with great success in the
fenny districts near Rochefort, France,
and the authorities of Holland assert
that the intermittent fever has wholly
disappeared from the districts where
sunfowers have been planted. 1t is
not yet determined what effect the
flower produces upon the atmosphere
whether it generates oxygen, like
other plants of rapid growth, or
whether, like the conatere, it emlts
ozone, and thus destroys the organic
germs of miasmas that produce fever.
Especially if you have marshy places
about your farm or house or other
buildings, plant sunhowers. The
place will look all the prettier for the
presence of these plants, with their
ornamental foliage and stately flowers,
and you will have beside a good crop
of their useful seeds as food for your
poultry. Besides planting the ordl-
nary sunfower for it's healthful prop
critics and it's seed, you a plant some
beds of the new kinds, which are ex-
ceedingly handsome, and will furnish
you quite a purseful of money, If you
ship their finest blossoms to some New
York florist, who will retail them on
commission or buy them outright
from you. I add this last advice as
another inducement for the planting
Of this flower.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-05-05

is covered by soil, no harm will ensue.
If potash liberates ammonia in the
soil it is Immediately dissolved, and the
two make a nitrate of potash, which is
one of the most valuable plant foods
known.
AS A FIELD CROP.
The tomato has wonderfully i'm
proved in quality since it's first intro
duction as a novel curiosity some forty
odd years ago. 1t is not altogether
that taste has changed since those days,
though that, as we'll as the difference
in the fruit, will account for the great
quantities now used, not only in their
season but canned or made into pre-
serves with a liberal amount of sugar.
Many prefer them thus prepared to
figs, and tomatoes are undoubtedly
the more healthful of the two. There is
no kind of fruit easily or quickly
grown, and unlike most garden vege-
tables, the tomato does not require
very rich soil. 1t is we'll adapted to
field culture on rather poorer land
than is required for a large potato
crop. Nor is it necessary to success
to get the crop ripened very early.
INSECT PowDER FOR SITTING HENS
A few days before the eggs are due
to hatch the hens and nest should be
thoroughly busted with insect powder,
to destroy lice that have probably fas-
tened on the hen while sitting. The
instinct of maternity is SO strong at
this time that a hen does not take
her usual precautions in keeping her
self free from vermin. The result is
that so soon as the chickens hatch the
lice leave the hen and fasten on them,
killing many and making all weakly.
Insect powder is better to destroy lice
on sitting hens than oil or grease,
which would get on the eggs, closing
their pores, and thus destroying chick
ems even before they are Matched. 1t
is not best that a sitting hen should
be fat, and she will not be long after
sitting. Considerable oil comes
through her skin, giving the eggs the
shiny, smooth look that indicates that
they are bad.
THE BEST LAND FOR ORCHARDS.
If any farmer thinks that nature
can be cheated, and that after cropping
land until it will no longer produce
anythingit can then be set to fruit trees
and made profitable, he will find him
self greatly mistaken. We hear some
times that a young orchard is on too
rich soil, that the trees are growing to
wood when they should be bearing
fruit. But wait a few years and
these trees will prove far more valua-
BILE and long-lived than those set to
bearing because of their own stunted
growth. If a thrifty orchard does
not bear as it should, dose it pretty
heavily with some fertilizer, phosphate
or potash, or if these cannot be OBJ
tanned, give the trees a good dressing
of salt. 1t is very possible that soils
full of vegetable matter, and therefore
Astounding in carbonaceous and nitro
genous elements of plant food, may be
lacking in the mineral elements. Nj
trogen or ammonia would stimulate
leaf growth unduly, while there might
not be the required food to make fruit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
JAMESTOWN JOFTINGS.
Holiday News from the Metropolis
of the Jim.
Special to the Globe.

Special TO the GlODe.
JAMESTOWN, Oak, Dec. 31.-Christmas was
spent at the asylum in a very pleasant man
ner. number of friends from the city at
tended and besides the very interesting exer-
cises were treated to al excellent dinner.
There were two Christmas trees loaded with
useful presen IS for the inmates. Speeches
were made by Hon. Johnson Hickeus, +. E.
Jones and Mayor Lyon. The day was spent
in q happy manner that will long cause the
guests to remember the hospitality of DR.. and
Mrs. Archibald. Mrs. Henry Wheeler died
Monday morning at her residence on Sixth
avenue. The remains were sent to Blairs-
burg, Ia, for interment. As soon as spring
opens the owner of q fine Fifth avenue BUSH
ness lot stands ready to build an elegant
brick, if tenants can be secured. AT the
band meeting Monday evening n. E. Beaure-
gard, the leader, was presented with fine
seal skin cap as a token of the boys appre
citation of his efforts in their behalf. Con-
tractor Plattenberg has returned from Dick
inson and reports the people all pleased with
the work on the new court house, which he and
his partner Mr.. Rankin, recently finished. -.
George w. Vennum is contemplating moving
to Minneapolis to engage in the stock COM
mission business. Prof. Denny has organ
lied debating society among the high school
pupils. 1t starts off very encouragingly with
fourteen members. Annie Anderson, d
Norwegian girl employed at the Capital house,
was adjudged insane Friday and taken to the
asylum. Tine arteSian we'll is now down
1000 feet, and going deeper at the rate of
about twenty feet per day. Miss Mosher
Eldrege school district, left Thursday for
Waseca, MIMI. where she will spend the
winter. A D. Bingham, brakeman, had
his finger smashed, near Eckleson, while
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-01
DAY DID 1T.
MIR. Ziebach's Letter Did Not Hasten
Church,s Appointment.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Dec 31.-At the interior
department it is denied that the Ziebach
letter of withdrawal fastened the appoint
ment of Democratic governor. True. the
Ziebach letter suggested to the president
that there were nearly $500. 900 worth of
offices to be disposed of by the governor,
and that a Democrat should have the be-
stowal of them. But that sordid reason of
office-seekers and office-getters had no in
had decided upon the appointment
of Judge Church, and had received
the resignation of Gov. Pierce long before
the Ziebach letter was written or received.
The real cause of the fastening of the ap-
pointment was the magnanimous with
draWal OF Mr.. Day, and his urgent solicita-
ton that Democratic governor be ap
pointed. Had Mr.. Day, with his strong
territorial following, remained in the fight,
poStponement would have resulted, not
Withstanding the personal desire and deter
mination of the president to appoint Judge
Church. Furthermore, it is said that the
statement in the Ziebach letter was
MERELY CASUAL,
and not intended to be argumentative. and
that Mr.. Zieback had no Office-seekers nor
officeholders' benefits in mind when he
made that alluson. Such was not the pur-
port of his letter. The matter was merely
mentioned as matter of political justice to
the territorial Democracy, that those Of
fees should be held by Democrats under
Democratic ADMINISTRATION. The facts in
the case have been miSrepreSented and dis
tOrted for partisan purposes, and to cast re-
Elections upon MI. Ziebach, and also upon
the president Besides, the annual sum
total of the offices to be disposed of would
not reach such an enormous amount, unless
all of the teachers. trustees, servants,
guards, ct cetera, i'll all of the institutions
of the territory should be marked for re-
moval and change. Nothing of the kind
was contemplated. Nothing of that nature
is intended probably by Gov. Church.